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Comment of the day: When I lost respect for Romney on foreign policy

From "Army FAO" on Friday: I lost any remaining respect for the foreign policy team advising Romney when they started pushing the message that this wouldn’t have happened if Romney were president. Really? Is he going to prevent people from posting insults to Islam on YouTube? Or does he propose to garrison every embassy with ...

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From "Army FAO" on Friday:

From "Army FAO" on Friday:

I lost any remaining respect for the foreign policy team advising Romney when they started pushing the message that this wouldn’t have happened if Romney were president. Really? Is he going to prevent people from posting insults to Islam on YouTube? Or does he propose to garrison every embassy with a full company of Marines who are authorized to shoot protestors? This whole thing is a bad deal, but to argue that Obama is responsible is just foolish. As usual Romney is connect to throw rocks without saying what he would do differently. God I wish there was a better candidate in this race for the Republicans. Who needs law to suppress the vote, just run campaigns so negatively that no one can get excited for either candidate.

Thomas E. Ricks covered the U.S. military from 1991 to 2008 for the Wall Street Journal and then the Washington Post. He can be reached at ricksblogcomment@gmail.com. Twitter: @tomricks1

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